Chicken-waterer.



PATENTED DEC. 27, 1904.

F. A. BAGLEY.

CHICKEN WATERER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 29. 1904.

UNITED STATES Patented. December 2'7, 1904.

FRED A. BAGLEY, OF CLARENCE, IOWA.

CHlCKEN-WATERER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 778,624, dated December27, 1904. Application filed February 29, 1904. Serial No- 195,939.

To all 7072/0711 it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED A. BAGLEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Clarence, in the county of Cedar and State of Iowa, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Chicken-Vaterers, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple water receptacle orfountain to supply chickens with drinking-water, and so constructed asto maintain a small quantity of water at a uniform level and soprotected as to prevent the chickens from fouling it.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,Figure l is a side view of the watering device as in use. Fig. 2 is acentral section of the same. Fig. 3 is a view of the same in positionfor filling, a part being broken away to show the waterlevel.

The device, which is very simple, is described as follows: A is acylindrical vessel, preferably made of galvanized sheet metal and closedat both ends. In one side and near one end is a notch B, forming anopening large enough to admit the bill of a chicken, the bottom of thenotch being parallel with the end of the vessel on which it stands.Inside the vessel, with its top slightly above the notch, is a funnel C,hermetically secured to the sides of the vessel and with its smalloutlet extending a little below the level of the bottom of the notch.\Vhen in position for use, as in Figs. 1 and 2, the water by atmospheric pressure takes the position shown in Fig. 2, that in the shallowcup at the bottom being uniformly at the level of the funneloutlet orvery slightly higher. A small supply of water is thus provided for thefowls, kept automatically at the uniform level, and

protected from dirt and filth.

It is of course impossible to keep the water perfectly cleanindefinitely, as the chickens will leave some dirt by dipping theirbeaks in it, and dust will be blown in to some extent. It is necessary,therefore, to occasionally clean out the cup at the bottom. Theconstruction is such as to make this very convenient, it being possibleto reach entirely around the funnel-shaped diaphragm, and so clean allparts of the water-cup at the bottom. This may be done with the water inthe cup, which may then be emptied out Without emptying or fouling thewater in the upper part of the vessel.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

The described drinking-fountain for chickens, the same comprising asingle and inseparable cylindrical vessel, closed at the top and bottom,having an opening at one side near the bottom, to admit the fowls beak,and a funnel-shaped diaphragm hermetically attached to the cylinderabove said opening, with its apex extending a little below the lowerline thereof, the lower end of the vessel forming a shallowdrinking-cup, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRED A. BAGLEY.

Witnesses:

J. M. ST. JOHN, F. J. KUBIcnK.

